Improvement in fare-boxes



J. E. WHITE. FARE-BOXES.

No. 195,065. Patented Sept. 11,1877. I

JAMES E. WHITE, OF CINCINNATI, OHIO.

IMPROVEMENT IN FARE-BOXES.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 195,065, dated September 11, 1877; application filed January 8, 1877.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, JAMES E. WHITE, of the city of Cincinnati, in the county of Hamilton and State of Ohio, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Railroad Fare-Boxes and Conductors Trip'Slip Checks; and I. do hereby declare that the following is a full, clear, and exact description thereof, which will enable others skilled in the art to which it appertains to make and use the same, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, and to the letters of reference marked thereon, which form a part of this specification.

The object of this invention is to register the cash fares received by conductors upon steam-railroads; and the nature thereof consists in providing a box with an alarm-recep tacle for the reception of a certain trip-slip, all of which will be hereinafter more fully described in the drawings.

Figure 1 represents my box open with the mechanism shown. Fig. 2 is a plan of the top of the box closed, also showing the tripslip receptacle closed. Fig. 3 shows the tripslip receptacle closed.

In all of the figures the same letter refers to the same parts.

The box A, of wood or other suitable material, is provided with a door, B, with bandlock, 0, and also a recess cut in it for a seal when closed, and, for the purpose of additional security, there is also provided the turning-button d in the seal. Upon the top of the box there is the plate E, which has the tripslip opening 6, which connects with the flat tube E running down into the interior of the box, and terminating in another face-plate, E Upon the top of the plate E is the sliding plate F, which is actuated by the handle f. Plate F is hung upon a shaft, F which runs down parallel with the tube E and, passing through plate E and closing-plate F with shoulderf and rivet, holds plate F down upon plate E and plate F upon plate E.

It will be seen that the plates F and F are rigidly attached to shaft 13, and both are therefore actuated by the handle f, being so set upon the shaft F that when the opening 0 in plate E is open then the plate F has closed the end of the tube E at E and when the tube E is open at E then the plate F has closed the opening 6 in plate E, for purposes to be hereinafter explained. Midway of the shaft F is a trip, G, engaging with a pawl, G and bellstriker G both of which are pivoted by the hinge g, and held out in position by the bracket G which is attached upon the tube E Said striker Gr strikes the bell H, when the shaft F is revolved back in the direction necessary to close the trip-slip opening E, striking just as the plate F opens the bottom of the tube E At the bottom of the box spring-binders I, for the reception of a letter or note, K, are provided.

The trip-slips are of pasteboard, and have printed on them, in consecutive order each way, the stations of the railroad using the same.

On the plate Y on the top of the box will be printed the words, Passengers will see that the portionof the slip they deposit in the box contains the stations where they get on and off. On the trip-slip will be printed the words, Passengers will hold this portion of the slip as the conductors check, and also the words, Oonductors Trip Slip. On the back of the slip will be printed the name of the road using the same, and the words, Good for this trip and train only, and in addition thereto, in case of half-fare passengers, the words, Halt Fare.

In describing the operation of this invention the use of the trip-slip employed will be made manifest.

The conductor, who carries the box, on receiving the coupon, ticket, or money of a passenger, with a pair of scissors cuts a slip in such a way that one portion has on it only the names of the stations where the passenger gets on and is to get off, and intervening stations, and hands the slip thus divided to the passenger, who is requested by the plate Y on the box, as above, and by suitable notices in the interior of the car, and by the conductor, to put the portion containing the names of the stations where he got 011 and is to get ofl in the box, which is held by the conductor with the opening e in plate E exposed for that purpose. The conductor then allows the spring on the shaft F to close the opening e, and, in so doing, an alarm is given through the meand sealed, provided with a flat tube, E having opening and closing plates F and F rigidly attached to each other by a shaft, F for receiving slip and sounding an alarm, substantially as and for the purposes described.

2. In combination with the combined fare and alarm box A, locked and sealed, provided with a flat tube, E having opening and closing plates F and F rigidly attached to each other by a shaft, F for. receiving slip and sounding an alarm, the devices I and I for holding the note K, for the purposes,herein described and set forth.

In testimony that I claim the foregoing as my own I hereto affix my signature in presence of two witnesses.

JAMES E. WHITE.

Witnesses:

JNO. P. MURPHY, P. ORossoN. 

